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PUEBLA CITY, Mexico – The Fourth Annual IberoAmerican Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation Journalism unspooled here last week. Puebla, if you don’t know (I didn’t), is the fourth-largest city in Mexico, capital of one of its thirty-two states, situated eighty miles southeast of Mexico City on the colonial road from Vera Cruz, Mexico’s Atlantic port, and home to a university with prominent school of journalism. Conference headliners were prize-winning journalists from El Pais, El Mundo, Le Monde, Nature, and the BBC. My presence owed to a ten-year-old book. The invitation arrived just as word began to leak out about…

The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers (Simon & Schuster, 2015), by Gillian Tett

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse (Random House, 2016) by Mohamed El-Erian

The Promise of Party in a Polarized Age (Harvard, 2014), by Russell Muirhead

Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton, 2016), by William Goetzmann

From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives (Harper, 2016), by Jeffrey Garten

When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (Harvard, 2002), by David Moss

How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network (Princeton, 2015), by Shane Greenstein

Financial Risk Management for Dummies (Wiley, 2015), by Aaron Brown,

The Prize: Who's In Charge of America's Schools (Houghton Mifflin,2015), by Dale Russelhof

A History of Macroeconomics: From Keynes to Lucas and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2015), by Michel De Vroey

Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (Norton, 2015), by Dani Rodrik

Learning By Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages and Wealth (Yale, 2015), by James Bessen

Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine (Oxford, 2015), by Kenneth Ludmerer

My Soul is Among Lions: Pages from the Breast Casncer Archives (Amazon, 2013), by Ellen Leopold

The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of American Defense Strategy (Basic, 2015), by Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts

The Promise of Party in a Polarized World (Harvard, 2014), by Russell Muirhead

Genealogy of American Finance (Columbia, 2015), by Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla

The Maze of Banking (Oxford, 2015), by Gary B. Gorton

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Norton, 2015), by Richard Thaler

When the Facts Change: Essays 1995-2010 (Penguin, 2015), by Tony Judt

American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church (Public Affairs, 2014), by Alex Beam
Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (Princeton, 2015), by Jeffrey Frieden

The Mystery of the Invisible Hand: A Henry Spearman Mystery (Princeton, 2014), by Marshall Jevons